Shuttle astronauts prepare to install COSTAR during the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission in December 1993. (courtesy NASA)
After finishing up my moderating duties at Compliance Week 2014, I put on my running stuff and headed to the National Mall, destination National Air and Space Museum. The aim was to see something very specific, an…
Linguistic geniuses? ( Wikimedia photo)
I have been super impressed with Boko Haram over in Nigeria recently. Not so much because of all the murdering and kidnapping. It’s their ability to squeeze complex meaning into such small phrases. Think about it: “Boko Haram” means, roughly, in the local Hausa language, “Western education is forbidden.” That’s four…
Mashable published my story on what is probably going to be the future of drug testing today. I figured I'd add a bit of backstory.
I came across CU Toxicology and their high performance liquid chromatography/dual mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS-MS) drug test while doing a story for University of Colorado Hospital's biweeky online magazine. It struck me…
At Syngenta, corn apparently trumps male genitalia.
The New Yorker’s Rachel Aviv did a great investigative piece on the tactics Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta (once part of Novartis) has used to discredit scientists – UC Berkeley’s Tyrone Hayes in particular – whose studies show their products to be harmful to amphibians and, probably humans.
The European…
1. Russia’s intransigence surrounding the growing humanitarian catastrophe in Syria is of far greater geopolitical importance than anything happening at Sochi.
2. Russia’s role in the ongoing unrest in Ukraine is of far greater geopolitical importance than anything happening at Sochi.
3. Politically speaking, the Olympics have been good for voices of Russian dissent, with Mikhail Khodorkovsky…